The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
xzless, lzless – view xz or lzma compressed (text) files Synopsisxzless [file…] lzless [file…] Descriptionxzless is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal. It works on files compressed with xz(1) or lzma(1). If no files are given, xzless reads from standard input. xzless uses less(1) to present its output. Unlike xzmore,…
lziprecover – recovers data from damaged lzip files Synopsislziprecover [,options/] [,files/] DescriptionLziprecover – Data recovery tool and decompressor for the lzip format. Lziprecover can repair perfectly most files with small errors (up to one single-byte error per member), without the need of any extra redundance at all. Losing an entire archive just because of a…
lzip – reduces the size of files Synopsislzip [,options/] [,files/] DescriptionLzip – LZMA lossless data compressor. Options-h, –help display this help and exit -V, –version output version information and exit -a, –trailing-error exit with error status if trailing data -b, –member-size=<bytes> set member size limit in bytes -c, –stdout write to standard output, keep input…
xzgrep – search compressed files for a regular expression Synopsisxzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file… xzegrep … xzfgrep … lzgrep … lzegrep … lzfgrep … Descriptionxzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzop(1), or zstd(1). All options specified are passed directly to grep(1). If no file…
xzgrep – search compressed files for a regular expression Synopsisxzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file… xzegrep … xzfgrep … lzgrep … lzegrep … lzfgrep … Descriptionxzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzop(1), or zstd(1). All options specified are passed directly to grep(1). If no file…
xzgrep – search compressed files for a regular expression Synopsisxzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file… xzegrep … xzfgrep … lzgrep … lzegrep … lzfgrep … Descriptionxzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzop(1), or zstd(1). All options specified are passed directly to grep(1). If no file…
xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff – compare compressed files Synopsisxzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] xzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] lzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] lzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] Descriptionxzcmp and xzdiff invoke cmp(1) or diff(1) on files compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), or lzop(1). All options specified are passed directly to cmp(1) or diff(1). If only one file…
xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff – compare compressed files Synopsisxzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] xzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] lzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] lzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] Descriptionxzcmp and xzdiff invoke cmp(1) or diff(1) on files compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), or lzop(1). All options specified are passed directly to cmp(1) or diff(1). If only one file…
xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat – Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files Synopsisxz [option…] [file…] Command Aliasesunxz is equivalent to xz –decompress. xzcat is equivalent to xz –decompress –stdout. lzma is equivalent to xz –format=lzma. unlzma is equivalent to xz –format=lzma –decompress. lzcat is equivalent to xz –format=lzma –decompress –stdout. When writing scripts…
lz4 – lz4, unlz4, lz4cat – Compress or decompress .lz4 files Synopsislz4 [OPTIONS] [-|INPUT-FILE] OUTPUT-FILE unlz4 is equivalent to lz4 -d lz4cat is equivalent to lz4 -dcfm When writing scripts that need to decompress files, it is recommended to always use the name lz4 with appropriate arguments (lz4 -d or lz4 -dc) instead of the…
lz4 – lz4, unlz4, lz4cat – Compress or decompress .lz4 files Synopsislz4 [OPTIONS] [-|INPUT-FILE] OUTPUT-FILE unlz4 is equivalent to lz4 -d lz4cat is equivalent to lz4 -dcfm When writing scripts that need to decompress files, it is recommended to always use the name lz4 with appropriate arguments (lz4 -d or lz4 -dc) instead of the…
lz4_decompress – decompress mysqlpump LZ4-compressed output Synopsis lz4_decompress input_fileoutput_fileDescriptionThe lz4_decompress utility decompresses mysqlpump output that was created using LZ4 compression. lz4_decompress was added in MySQL 5.7.10. Invoke lz4_decompress like this: shell> lz4_decompress input_fileoutput_file Example: shell> mysqlpump –compress-output=LZ4 > dump.lz4 shell> lz4_decompress dump.lz4 dump.txt To see a help message, invoke lz4_decompress with no arguments. To decompress…
lz4 – lz4, unlz4, lz4cat – Compress or decompress .lz4 files Synopsislz4 [OPTIONS] [-|INPUT-FILE] OUTPUT-FILE unlz4 is equivalent to lz4 -d lz4cat is equivalent to lz4 -dcfm When writing scripts that need to decompress files, it is recommended to always use the name lz4 with appropriate arguments (lz4 -d or lz4 -dc) instead of the…
lz – gunzips and shows a listing of a gzip’d tar’d archive Synopsislz file Descriptionlz provides a listing of a gzip’d tar’d archive, that is a tar(1) archive compressed with the gzip(1) utility. It is not strictly necessary on Debian GNU/Linux, because the GNU tar(1) program provides the same capability with the command tar -tzf…
lyxclient – send commands to a running LyX editor Synopsislyxclient [ options ] DescriptionWhen LyX starts, it creates a unique, per-process local socket in the temporary directory through which commands can be sent. That is, it can act like a server, accepting connections from clients. lyxclient can be used as such client. lyxclient will take…
LyX – A Document Processor Synopsislyx [ command-line switches ] [ name[.lyx] … ] DescriptionLyX is too complex to be described completely in the "man" page format. If your system is properly configured, you can access the full documentation within LyX under the Help menu. LyX is a document preparation system. It excels at letting…
lynx – a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web Synopsislynx [options] [optional paths or URLs] lynx [options] [path or URL] -get_data data — lynx [options] [path or URL] -post_data data — Use “lynx -help” to display a complete list of current options. DescriptionLynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client…
lxterminal – a lightweight terminal emulator based on GTK+ for the LXDE desktop. Synopsis lxterminal [options…]DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the lxterminal command. lxterminal is a program that provides a terminal emulator for the desktop, usually for LXDE. It is a lightweight GTK+ 2.x based desktop panel. OptionsThis program follows the usual GNU command line…
lxterm – locale-sensitive wrapper for xterm Synopsislxterm [ xterm-options ] Descriptionlxterm is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program that invokes xterm, koi8rxterm(1), or uxterm(1) as appropriate, based on the user’s locale setting. All arguments to lxterm are passed to xterm without processing; the -class, -k8, and -u8 options should not be specified because they are…
lxt2vcd – Converts LXT2 files to VCD Syntaxlxt2vcd [option]… [LXT2FILE] DescriptionConverts LXT2 files to VCD files on stdout. If an output filename is not specified, the VCD is emitted to stdout. Note that "regular" LXT2 files will convert to VCD files with monotonically increasing time values. LXT2 files which are dumped with the "partial" option…